BOSTON – Senate action on a transportation bond bill worth up to $564 million is expected soon, meaning money for city and town road projects should arrive on time for warmer weather, lawmakers say.

“The House has already done its work, and we’ll get there soon” Sen. Thomas Kennedy, D-Brockton, said Thursday.

As Senate vice chairman of the Legislature’s joint Committee on Transportation, Kennedy has a list of projects he would like to see in the bill, including a top priority of fixing the dangerous intersection of North Quincy Street at Boundary Avenue and Chestnut Street in Brockton.

There have been four fatal accidents there since August.

Sen. Marc Pacheco, D-Taunton, another member of the committee, has his own range of projects. He said the damage done by this particularly harsh winter will require further assessment.

Pacheco also wants to see progress on the proposed South Coast Rail project, which would provide Taunton with a commuter rail link to Boston.

With 81 highway projects worth $400 million awaiting action by the Legislature, state Secretary of Transportation Richard Davey has been exerting gentle pressure to get final action on the spending plan.

“While I am hopeful the bond bill will continue to make steady progress toward passage, I want to reiterate that as we wait, there are a number of projects that have major regional economic benefits that will wait as well,” Davey said in a report he gave Wednesday.

Michael Verseckes, spokesperson for the state Department of Transportation, is confident that the road-projects bill will be passed soon.

Not much roadwork could be done now, given the normal procedural roadblocks and the fact that winter hasn’t ended, Verseckes said.

“There are exactly 120 days between the date the project is advertised and the issuance of a notice to proceed, so nothing could get done today or tomorrow,” he said. “The transportation bond bill must still travel through Senate committees on transportation, ways and means, and bonding before the full Senate finally votes on it. The Senate Bonding Committee also has been debating the proposal.

Relatively quick progress has been made in the Senate committees, but some people expect immediate passage when the Senate receives a bill from the House, Pacheco said.

“It’s at the last leg of the process, and all of a sudden people want it out,” he said.

Spring does not begin until March 20, so there is plenty of time to finish the bill before road work can begin, Pacheco said.

“Authorization will be there in time for construction season,” he said.